Weekly poll results: Xperia XZ3 is best IFA flagship, Honor Play best mid-ranger

In years past the phones that were unveiled at IFA went on to define the second half of the year. Will this year be the same? Maybe, but the roster seemed thinner than usual this time and some big names were missing. Sony Xperia XZ3 • Huawei Honor Play The competition was especially sparse in the flagship segment, but that shouldn't take away from the decisive victory of the Sony Xperia XZ3, which trounced the Axon 9 Pro. The XZ3 is the first big redesign from Sony in years and the awesome 6" QHD P-OLED was added to the list of beloved Xperia features. That said, we should...

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Counterclockwise: BlackBerry, the king of keyboards, was killed by the touchscreen

All chat clients these days have "delivered" and "seen" labels to reassure you that your message reached its intended recipient. But what if getting the message delivered was literally a matter of life and death? Enter Research in Motion or as it would later be known, BlackBerry. In 1996 the company introduced its first product, the Inter@ctive Pager, a two-way pager built on the Mobitex data network designed for emergency services (police, ambulance, firefighters). Another pager, the BlackBerry 850, would give rise to the iconic name - its distinctive keyboard was reminiscent of the...

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Android Pie for Nokia 8 Sirocco will bring ARCore support and improved camera

Juho Sarvikas, Nokia's CPO's recent tweet will be music to Nokia 8 Sirocco owners' ears. He promises cool new features for the company's current flagship phone that will come as part of the Android 9.0 Pie update. In a tweet, an unhappy Nokia owner posted a complaint that Nokia isn't doing what's necessary to bring the latest and greatest to its top-shelf Nokia 8 Sirocco smartphone in terms of software features. Sarvikas was fast to reply that the developers' team is working on a plethora of new features including ARCore support and better camera experience. Those changes will come...

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HTC revenues continue to slip in Q2, down 58% YoY

HTC's financial results from Q2 of 2018 are in and it doesn't look good. But who's surprised with the ever declining sales? The VR business and Google's deal with the company are probably the only things keeping the firm alive at this point. The financial report reads TWD 6.8 billion ($220.6 million) in revenue, which is 58% down compared to last year's Q2. The quarterly net loss is TWD2.09 billion ($67.8 million), making this the the tenth quarter in a row that saw the company lose money. HTC's founder and chairman Wang Xuehong recently said that HTC will likely focus more on...

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Samsung's USB-C to HDMI adapter for the Galaxy Note9 now available

The upgrade from the Samsung Galaxy Note8 to the Note9 may be mostly about the the battery and S Pen, but it also brings the dock-less Dex feature, which gives quite a lot of extra freedom on the go. Instead of that dock wherever you go, a single USB-C to HDMI cable will be enough to move your work to the big screen. Why not even show off those crisp pictures you took on your last trip with the Note9 on that living room TV? Samsung's official dongle supports up to UHD resolution screens with 60Hz refresh rate. It supports HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.2 standards and it's currently on...

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Motorola Moto G7 rumor-based renders surface

The Moto G6 lineup is still fresh on the shelves from earlier this year, but that doesn't mean that Motorola isn't working on a follow-up. So Waqar Khan took the time to create 3D renders of what the device might look like based on the existing leaks. Moto G7 renders Some time ago, live pictures of the Motorola One and an unknown device appeared. Now the original source on Weibo was found and the mysterious device turned out to be a Moto G7 prototype. Moto G7 renders Khan's renders give us a more detailed look at how the device might be designed. We've got relatively...

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Xiaomi Mi 8 Youth's full TENAA listing is here to reveal the design

Yesterday's massive leak regarding the upcoming Xiaomi Mi 8 Youth got us the specs, but since it lacked photos of the device, the design remained a mystery. Mi 8 Youth in white Now the TENAA listing has been updated with all the images needed to have a closer look at the handset. The sides look like they are made of metal with the SIM card tray positioned on the left which leaves the volume rocker and the power button on the right. The back looks flat and resembles the Mi 8 SE except for the double camera alignment, which in this case is horizontal. The front, unfortunately,...

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Razer Phone 2 now makes an appearance on AnTuTu with 512GB of storage

Razer's CEO confirmed that the company is working on a successor to the original Razer Phone and initial rumors pointed to a September launch, but those were quickly dismissed by his latest statement, which suggested a December launch. Later on we got the first pieces of information about the phone itself coming from yesterday's Geekbench score sheet. Following that some guys took the time to go through the AnTuTu database and found the Razer Phone 2 in there as well. The listing confirms the Snapdragon 845 chipset, 8GB of RAM and the Android 8.1 Oreo OS, but also gives us a few more...

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Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer's Singapore certification suggests a global rollout

Just a day after the market launch of the Mi 8 Explorer in China, the smartphone appeared on TENAA with smaller notch carrying the same model number as the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) listing - M1807E8A. This is the first time we see it outside of China and it appears the first stop is Singapore. However, the document refers to the phone as Mi 8 Pro, which could be its international name. We just wonder if the smaller notch pictured in the TENAA photos in July could mean that the international variant won't have the 3D facial recognition feature and will rely...

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